Defense authorization bill enters final stretch

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Lawmakers are staring down the final leg of the journey to getting the annual defense spending bill passed, but not without a few hiccups along the way, including last minute efforts to tack on unrelated bills to the legislation and a late GOP push to try to end the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for military service members.

We’ll share where the bill is in all of this plus the secretly modified rocket systems sent to Ukraine and how the Ukraine-Russia war is affecting U.S.-Russia nuclear talks.

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White House opposes repealing mandate via NDAA

The White House opposes using the annual defense spending bill to repeal a vaccine mandate for military service members, national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Monday.

President Biden is in agreement with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the mandate should remain in place, Kirby said. Republican lawmakers have threatened to delay passage of the annual defense authorization bill if the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which was instituted last year, is not rescinded.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/defense-national-security-defense-authorization-bill-enters-final-stretch/ar-AA14WPRO

[Historic NY]

1. Republican Senators are threatening to defund the defense dept over vaccines

[drray23]

2. idiotic republicans.

What do they think it would do to military readiness if soldiers could decide not to get vaccinated ? For hundreds of years diseases were a significant cause of death in armies.

For example, it's well known that what decimated the napoleon armies in their campaign against Russia was diseases.

https://www.reliasmedia.com/articles/126771-napoleon-typhus-and-trench-fever

During the struggle to birth our nation, George washington ordered his troops vaccinated against smallpox.

In late 1776, as Gen. George Washington led his troops through the opening battles of the American Revolution, it was not necessarily the enemy fighters who posed the biggest risk to the fledgling U.S. Army.

An estimated 90% of deaths in the Continental Army were caused by disease, and the most vicious were variants of smallpox, according to the U.S. Library of Congress.

see https://www.health.mil/News/Articles/2021/08/16/Gen-George-Washington-Ordered-Smallpox-Inoculations-for-All-Troops


Since, the army has always made sure its soldiers were vaccinated.